295502 - Thunderbird does not indicate that you are a BCC recipient to a message

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Joe Gugliemino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

In both the main window or the message window, there is no indication that you
are a BCC recpient of a message.  You are left to infer that that is the case by
the fact that your name is not in the TO or CC fields.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Send a message to yourself, putting at least 1 valid address in the TO field
and your address on the BCC field
2.  Send the message
3.  Look at the message.  The Subject, From, Date, and To fields are visible and
your address isn't included.  There's no indication that you were a BCC recipient.


Actual Results:  
I saw a mail without my address in the TO field

Expected Results:  
It should have showed a BCC header that had my address in it.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

that's what bcc means - blind carbon copy, none of the recipients are supposed
to see the bcc list.

Comment 2

[Joe Gugliemino]

(In reply to comment #1)
> that's what bcc means - blind carbon copy, none of the recipients are supposed
> to see the bcc list.

You should see that you're a BCC!  Other mail clients (who will remain nameless)
do this, and for a good reason.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

mail servers strip off the bcc header before delivering the mail to the
recipient. Do a view | Message source. Notice there's no bcc header in the
received message.

Comment 4

[Joe Gugliemino]

(In reply to comment #3)
> mail servers strip off the bcc header before delivering the mail to the
> recipient. Do a view | Message source. Notice there's no bcc header in the
> received message.

That's interesting.  It means that the mail client needs to make the same
inference that the user currently needs to make.  It's not as straightforward an
issue as I thought.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

what you call an inference I'd call a guess :-) In general, there are several
ways you can receive a mail in your inbox without explicitly being on the to or
cc list